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defects and omissions in my paper will give you good opportunities 
for discussion, which I trust will be free, and help to extend the 
knowledge of the subject. 
At the conclusion of Dr Tyson’s paper, a few remarks were 
made by Dr. FitzGerald, Dr. Hastes, the Rev. C. Bosanquet, the 
Rey. G. C. Martin, and Mr. Walton, all of whom agreed with Dr. 
Tyson in his idea as to cremation being the best and most sanitary 
method of disposing of the human body after death. Mr. Bosan- 
quet and Mr. Martin spoke very strongly against the present 
system of enclosing bodies in lead and oak coffins and placing 
them in the ground, where their disintegration was delayed as 
much as possible. Mr. Martin attributed a long illness which he 
had suffered to the fact of his having attended a funeral at which 
the corpse was in an advanced stage of putrefaction, and Mr. 
Bosanquet said they all knew the peculiar smell which was notice- 
able in old churches, which they were told was the port wine 
consumed by their ancestors, but which they knew was something 
very much worse. He added that in his own church there was 
one grave from which he always fancied he could detect an odour 
arising. 
A vote of thanks to Dr. Tyson for his excellent paper was carried 
by acclamation. 
